UCLA Professor of Information Studies Michelle Caswell has been awarded the Waldo Gifford Leland Award by the Society of American Archivists for her 2014 book, Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia (Wisconsin, 2014).

Architect and director of the UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies Hitoshi Abe is designing new social housing for the Japanese region devastated by the March 2011 tsunami. Instead of utilitarian structures, he seeks to create housing that facilitates community interaction.

"[S]ome of the critical provisions will be binding if this resolution passes as a matter of international law, binding on the U.S. and binding on every other state in the system,” says Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala in Foreign Policy.